In the middle of July, both red leafed and green leafed Canna blooms in my container garden in Northern Israel! Okay, not a dense collection of blooms, but rather just a few, but I'll take it! And I'm really loving the height of the red leafed Canna this year, fabulous! I have noticed that Canna is a favorite around the world as a container plant for planters within a city, because the leaves are so large it makes a great "thriller" meaning dramatic and tall element in a planter with other types of plants that are "fillers" and "spillers" and it is also easy to propogate meaning for all that bang, it is likely not so expensive and so cities can buy huge quantities to fill all kinds of planters and park beds. I always wonder whether the tubers are dug up and saved to make more plants, or just tossed? In my neck of the woods, the Canna does die back in the winter, but comes back each spring with beautiful new leaves and eventually flowers, either bright red, or yellow, as you can see here. So do consider adding some Canna to your life, after all who can't use some thrillers in the form of lovely plants?
A little peak at my somewhat neglected container garden after all this is "shemittah" year and we are not doing any gardening, even in pots! And yes, i did make that mosaic planter, or rather covered a pot in mosaic, a full 20 years ago!
